This March, bestselling author and Salt Spring Seeds owner Dan Jason will be visiting Cobble Hill to promote a new edition of his book, Some Useful Wild Plants: A Foraging Guide to Food and Medicine from Nature. Jason will attend Cobble Hill’s Seedy Saturday at the Cobble Hill Community Hall on Saturday, March 11, from 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. Featuring over 100 common useful wild plants in Canada, Some Useful Wild Plants serves as a guide for foragers, herbalists, gardeners, and anyone interested in learning more about the many ways plants can be used to our advantage.
Category: British Columbia
BC Views: Fake news and the blood system
… wimpier spotted owl cousins. The other fake news protest was a more serious matter. An outfit calling itself the B.C. Health Coalition brought two “survivors” of blood transfusions to warn of the danger posed by a “pay-for-plasma” company that wants …
A young man smokes a marijuana joint during a rally in downtown…
… Dyck Not all medicinal marijuana is created equal. That’s what some experts are saying as they warn about the health risks and curtailed effectiveness associated with smoking medicine. As medical pot becomes increasingly mainstream and Canada moves …
Osoyoos man’s long wait for hip surgery raised in B.C. legislature
… An Osoyoos man’s long wait for a hip replacement was raised in the B.C. Legislature Monday by the NDP opposition. NDP health critic Judy Darcy called attention to the case of Lee Horn, who has been “languishing in pain for 903 days.” “Will the …
Charity walk needs teams
Money raised from the event will support programs, education and services in Kelowna and across B.C., as well as research into causes of and cures for dementia. Last year, the walk raised more than $813,000 across B.C. Teams that raise more than $250 by March 14 will be entered to win $500 in Air Canada gift cards.
‘Grow Women’s Health’ campaign supports care at LMH
Several local Shoppers Drug Mart stores have directed the $6,273 raised through their ‘Grow Women’s Health’ campaign to the colposcopy clinic at Langley Memorial Hospital. The Shoppers locations included Murrayville, Aldergrove and Willoughby.
Alzheimer’s Walk wants you
Penticton residents can join a team to participate in the Investors Group Walk for Alzheimer’s and show their support for people who face dementia. The event is Canada’s largest fundraiser for Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias and takes in 21 communities across B.C. on Sunday, May 7. The walk is a fun and family-friendly event and is unique to each community.
Loads to do for Family Day in Kelowna
There will be free skating, winter sport demonstrations and family soccer Saturday from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Capital News Centre, 4105 Gordon Dr. The Kelowna Speed Skating Club will have coaches available from 2 to 3 p.m. to give skating tips; people can try speed skates or use their own. The Kelowna Skating Club will have coaches on the leisure ice from 2 to 3 p.m. giving skating tips to children under six years old.
Researchers call this year’s flu vaccine effectiveness ‘decent’
… when we tally the serious outcomes at the end of the season.” Young children, the elderly and people with underlying health conditions like heart disease are vulnerable to complications from flu; H3N2 flu is particularly hard on the elderly. An …
Woman with disability blames lack of home care on B.C. health authority funding inequities
Barbara Yost has multiple sclerosis and says the 84 hours a month of home-support services that she gets amounts to “minimal care”. A woman confined to a wheelchair, in New Westminster, B.C., blames the provincial health authority’s funding formula for a lack of home-care services in the Fraser Health Authority .
Accused denies counselling her distraught husband to kill himself
A woman on trial for pushing her husband to kill himself denied the allegations in a Cranbrook, B.C., court while admitting to having marriage troubles. Terri Reimer is accused of counselling her husband, Bill Reimer, to commit suicide as well as administering a noxious substance with the intent to endanger.
Blood drive in honour of Tom Cameron
… of his time, energy, or other resource within his power. In recent years, however, Cameron dealt with a series of health issues, including a couple of strokes and blood in his lungs. Despite deteriorating health, he never left the helm of Maple …
Addictions should be treated with the same urgency as wildfires
… of community members. Yet, nearly a year after the Christy Clark government branded the fentanyl crisis as a public health emergency, ambulances and naloxone remain one of the only responses available to stem the tide of deaths. Even if the B.C. …
Difference Makers: Building self-esteem and changing lives, one…
The idea that a new hairstyle or a foot rub could be life-changing might seem farfetched, but for the founder of a local organization that provides free makeovers and self-care services to people living in poverty, these simple acts have gone on to make big impacts. Caroline MacGillivray is the founder and executive director of Beauty Night , a Vancouver-based organization that she started 16 years ago, after a chance encounter with a woman she met while volunteering at a Downtown Eastside drop-in centre.
Fentanyl: A mother’s pain, a mother’s message
… after that day, and suffered horribly, she says. What followed was two decades of Mcdonald struggling with mental health issues and drug use. Then, on Dec. 27, 2016 at an apartment in the Gastown Hotel in Vancouver, fentanyl took his life – almost. …
Study looks at link between cancer, anxiety
It appears lung cancer patients with anxiety and depression die sooner, according to a study by a team of researchers that included Dr. Rob Olson from the Northern Medical Program and the BC Cancer Agency of the North. The study, published in the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, is one of the first to explore a possible link between mental health and the survival rates of lung cancer patients.
Blood donor clinic for Connor
Eligible blood donors in Kelowna are being encouraged to give the gift of life during the Courage for Connor blood drive that runs January 24-31 at Kelowna Blood Donor Clinic, 103-1865 Dilworth Drive. Connor Morcom is an eight-year-old boy from Kelowna diagnosed nearly a year ago with medulloblastoma, a form of brain cancer that starts at the base of the skull and can spread to other parts of the brain and spinal cord.
Cancer fight ends tragically for 7-year-old boy
Joshua’s mother, Lia Weekes, donated bone marrow to her son, but doctors said his chances would have been better with an external donor who was a closer match in ethnic makeup. Joshua Weekes’ life was cut early, but family and friends say his kindness, laughter and smarts will be remembered forever.
Langley Orthodontist Dr. Aly Kanani Explains How to Prevent Food from Being Trapped in Braces
Preventing Food from Being Trapped in Braces by Langley Orthodontist Dr. Kanani. Wearers of traditional metal braces look forward to a straighter smile, but often complain that food gets trapped between the metal brackets and wires.
Editorial: What a year
Calling it the worst year on record might be going too far, but 2016 certainly came and went with more than it’s fair share of ups and downs. At home in Penticton, controversy seemed to overshadow everything with waterslides topping the list as it rolled over from 2015 and stretched out through the entire year.
Norovirus triggers second shellfish closure in B.C. waters
… are involved. Hopefully we will get to the bottom of the source,” she said. The second closure also comes as Island Health investigates more cases of people who got sick after eating raw oysters. The health authority issued a notice last week …
Sunshine Coast, a Leading Drug Rehab and Alcohol Treatment Center,…
Sunshine Coast Health Centre is a leading drug rehabilitation and alcohol treatment program, serving patients in Powell River, British Columbia. The Centre welcomed a new counsellor to the staff last month.
Longtime opioid users motivated by fear of withdrawal
John Lenec remembers the song “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door” going through his head moments after he slipped off a detox centre bed and began convulsing on the floor. It had been six hours since his last hit of heroin.